I presume that her hot blood resented every kind of wrap." Again that sidelong glance from his keen eye.

"She wore a checked silk handkerchief about her neck--the one she afterwards put over her head." "You were on the same train with my wife and sister-in-law," Ransom now said.

"Did you sit near them?
Converse with them, that is, with Mrs.
Ransom ?" "I have no reason for deceiving you in that regard," replied Mr.Harper.
"I did not come up from New York on the same train they did.

They must have come up in the morning, for when I arrived at the place they call the Ferry, I saw them standing on the hotel steps ready to step into the coach.

I spoke to Mrs.Ransom then, but only a word.